Re: AdaGames

[dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison)]

"Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> wrote in message news:<ua778vr7c0s76b@corp.supernews.com>...
> There is an Ada Hack-like game. One of our new programmers undertook to
> write such a thing to get used to programming in Ada. (This was about
> 1988 or so.) It got reasonably far, it definitely was playable. Indeed,
> we wasted quite a bit of time play-testing it! I had to stop it
> eventually, because we were paying him to work on compilers and tools,
> not Hack!

Now that I think about it, I went through almost the exact same
experience when I was learning Ada. The program I wrote was called
"Goons". It wasn't nearly as sophisticated as hack, though. It was
sort of like a turn-based version of "Robotron", but without any guns.
You had to get the attacking robots to either crash into each other,
or into barriers. It used the VMS SMG library for screen output, so it
would work on any terminal that could log into a Vax. At one point I
was getting official DR's submitted against it. :-)

Once we moved into the detailed design phase, there really wasn't time
to work on it any more (and I was getting my coding "fix" by doing my
normal work). I have no clue what, if anything, ever happened to it.


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